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"AN OPENLY known homosexual is somebody who probably wouldn't share my philosophy." Republican George W. Bush, asked if he would appoint someone who is openly gay to his administration, according to the NY POST.

"DESPITE HIS own moral victory, he's not the type to urge other gay actors to come out. Neither he [Rupert Everett] nor Madonna take kindly to a recent article in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, in which writer Andrew Sullivan pressured certain public figures, such as former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Ricky Martin, and Rosie O'Donnell, to define their sexuality. 'I hate that type of person,' Everett says, referring to outers of all stripes. 'I don't think you should be defined by your sexual preference,' Madonna says. I can't stand those hideous people, trying to call people out." "That's really fascist behavior. Horrible.' 'Right.' Madonna puts down her fork. 'Ed Koch is gay?!" she asks." VANITY FAIR, March issue.

"THREE YEARS after they became the most publicized, criticized, scrutinized gay couple in Hollywood, if not the country, Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche have had enough. Not of each other. Far from it. They are eager to declare, despite predictions that theirs was a relationship founded on Hollywood-style eccentricity and star madness, that they are still, as Heche put it, 'crazy happy' together. Then she quickly added, 'We probably shouldn't say that because it will only irritate some people."" Feb. 20 NEW YORK TIMES article.

"I UNDERSTAND more what went on What did we think?. That people would wrap their arms around us and say, 'Good for you!"?" -Ellen on her coming-out year.

"I WANT TO get back to just being funny. You can't be both political and funny. It's hard for people to separate the two. The political stuff started to be more important to me. Now I feel: enough of that." Ellen, who is planning a national tour with a new stand-up comedy act, which will culmi-

nate in an HBO comedy special in July, followed quickly, she hopes, by a return to weekly television in a new comedy series for CBS.

"IT'S A different side of me. My TV character was always a self-deprecating, very nervous, very goofy kind of person, a grown-up but kind of like a child. I was like Peter Pan for a while. I'm a little more grown-up in this. There's a sexuality about me that people haven't seen." -Ellen on her love scenes with Sharon Stone, on HBO's March 5 If These Walls Could Talk 2.

"WHAT OTHER lesbian on the planet would say, 'I won't do a love scene with Sharon Stone'?" Anne on Ellen's initial resistance to doing a love scene with Sharon. Anne wrote the script for Ellen's segment in the HBO film.

"TWENTY years ago male athletes who happened to be gay never mentioned the fact for fear of reprisals ... and the fear remains today. "They fear losing respect of teammates, coaches and fans and in losing playing time and, in the case of Division I college sports, losing scholarships,' [gay high school soccer coach and author Dan] Woog said. He said the stereotypes are that 'gay males can't be jocks' and, in the gay community, that 'all athletes are homophobic.' He said neither case is true." DAILY GAZETTE SCHENECTADY, Feb. 18 on Woog, author of Jocks: True Stories of America's Gay Male Athletes.

"THE REAL secure athletes feel no need to

put others down. My sport of soccer does well on the inclusion scale. It's a creative game, you make up your own mind on the soccer field, you learn to think for yourself." Woog.

"LET IT not be forgotten that it was the religious right of its day that ended up nailing Jesus Christ to that cross." The Kentucky Traveler in THE LETTER (Louisville).

"CAN YOU say 'LGBTST 10 times quickly? If not, you'd better learn, or you'll be lost at the

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for this semester. The topic of February 7's panel, held at Baruch College, was 'Imagining the Future: Exploring the Agenda of the LGBTQ Movement.' Q stands for 'queer' here-it's unclear how queer differs from L, G, B, or T, if at all-but such are the vagaries of progressive nomenclature." VILLAGE VOICE article by Norah Vincent.

"PETE KNIGHT, the California politician behind Prop. 22, may not like it that his son is gay. But he shouldn't make us vote on his private problem ... "TV ads airing against the antigay-marriage referendum in California.

"IT IS taking on the appearance of a mass slaughter. A drug induced-nightmare of unprecetested HIV-positive. They have strokes, heart dented magnitude for many people who have attacks and suffer liver and kidney damage. They develop dangerously high cholesterol and diabetes. Some of them have suffered deforgross

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mities. All because of anti-HIV drugs, namely if these walls could talk 2 the nucleoside analogues and protease inhibitors that make up the so-called combination or cocktail therapies. A name more worthy of the toxic effects listed on the drug labels would be 'medical poisons."" Commentary by Nicholas Regush on ABCNews.com Feb. 16.

"I AM surprised and chagrined that so much of the gay and lesbian press lets transgender activists so betray the activists who came before them and who understand that homophobia is the root of so many hate-crime evils visited upon their brothers and sisters. That much of the gay, lesbian and bisexual press is aiding and abetting this thinly veiled homophobia only shows the extent to which so many editors value dogma over their journalistic responsibilities." Epperly, editor, BAY WINDOWS of Boston.

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